Tag Archives: human rights

Is Clinton Dyslexic? The Real Crisis.

February 21, 2009 – 9:18 pm

According to CNN Clinton said that “Human rights cannot interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises.”
I think she must have meant that a global economic crisis can’t interfere with human rights and security. Without these basic rights everything else is moot. Money and security mean very little [...]

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Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Technology companies in the United States have succumbed to pressure by authoritarian foreign governments to provide such governments with information about Internet users that has led to the arrest and imprisonment of cyber dissidents, in violation of the corporate responsibility of such companies to protect and uphold human rights.

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2012 Olympic Games

October 12, 2007 – 1:05 pm

This message was not brought to you by the real Olympic Games, but is instead a demonstration of the free speech which the folks who run Olympic Games are trying to kill. David Edgar puts it pretty well: By declaring images, titles and now words to be ownable brands, these various organisations and individuals are contributing to an increased commodification and thus privatisation of materials previously agreed to be in the public domain.

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US Government’s Slippery Slope Into Our Lives Doesn’t Excuse China or the US Companies that Help China

August 14, 2007 – 9:09 am

The TechDirt article gets all antsy about folks in congress not liking US companies helping China’s evil government when we are doing essentially the same thing here in the US, but instead of saying that it is time to check our own policies and stop US companies from doing inhuman things the author simple concludes that: …unless we’re willing to look at the same issues in the US, it seems rather hypocritical to complain about US firms supplying the technology for China to do something quite similar to what we’re doing at home.

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